Verbosity at the UN

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Sep 26th 2012, 16:25 by L.P. | LONDON

FEWER dictators means better timekeeping at the UN General Assembly. In past years delegates braced themselves for the rambling rants of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi (record: 90 minutes in 2009). This years meeting of the UNs big representative body featured only a handful of long-winded speakers. Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad managed just under 40 minutes, bemusing some delegates and amusing others with his calls for restructuring the UN, which he says is heavily skewed towards a few countries. He also gave his thoughts about the coming of the 12th imam and Jesus of Nazareth.

UN protocol since 2003 stipulates that heads of state addressing the General Assembly must keep within a 15-minute limit. Barack Obama has breached that every year of his presidency with orations of at least 30 minutes. But modern efforts pall against the giants of the past. Cuba’s Fidel Castro in 1960 gave the longest ever continuous speech to the General Assembly, a fatiguing four hours and 29 minutes.

But the lengthiest speech ever at the UN (to the Security Council, not the General Assembly) was in 1957, when India’s representative, VK Krishna Menon, outlined in some detail India’s stand on Kashmir. It took eight hours, spread over three sessions, after which he collapsed.

This years delegates may not lack opportunity to exercise concentration. Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is due to address the General Assembly via video-link from his refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Concision is not his watchword. If a record is to be broken this year, the odds are on him.

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Sep 27th 2012, 07:56

Yeah, the routine runs in United Nation every year at these dates. Arranged by region’s location, China is scheduled to speak on the start of October, shortly after the mid-autumn festival, and United States speaks near final day of the same month. Both nation’s speech are the key to the following year’s global fortune.

Unforgettable to the failure of League of Nations, United Nation is still limited but somewhat makes efficient use of the negotiation mechanism. The regular report to United Nation runs despite the “outside world” of fact that conflicts and paradox continue.

For China, the so-called “sleeping lion” is resolved as China already does itself after 1949, but, China still make some nation worried when it comes to world’s economy. As pictured, China’s foreign minister, Yang Jie-chi, just took a nap to wait, but the nod may become the world’s focus. Yang said that although Sino-Japanese relations face difficulties, Beijing - Seoul - Tokyo talk goes about for recent days in New York.

An audition offered for an international interaction expresses limited performance. Behind this place and roles are more discussion and papers. Therefore, at first, don’t omit China and American sound or pose at this time. And then, have a cup of tea or coffee to have the world be more stable.

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又繼續回顧了。這篇是當年的中國外長，現任國務委員楊潔篪，在聯合國會議的每年例行外長報告時，小睡片刻的畫面。不知是真的很悠閒，內外無事，還是呢，這裡是否存有一個弔詭拿破崙講中國的睡獅的比喻，而經濟學者雜誌真諷刺地，趁討論起聯合國的例行元首和外長報告時間，拍這照作個映襯，也不錯地表達趣味。